The general administrative procedures of the Hawaii Department of Agriculture's Commodities Branch regarding establishment of grades and standards are described. An "unofficial" summary of the Hawaii standards for mango ...

Without an approved quarantine treatment for disinfesting mangoes of fruit flies and seed weevils, growes are not considering large-scale mango cultivation in Hawaii, but without adequate commercial planting, a market for ...

This paper provides a brief overview of mango propagation practices. There was discussion of "dwarfing rootstocks," about which a university horticulturist present declared, on the basis of experiments, that "the dwarfing ...

The history of mango cultivar introduction to Hawaii was reviewed. Tables listed cultivars suggested for home garden and commercial use, cultivars then undergoing testing, and cultivars tested but not recommended. Those ...

Mango postharvest characteristics as described in the world literature were reviewed. Work in Hawaii on the postharvest life of mangoes had been limited by lack of sufficient quantity of a selected variety, as there is ...

Mangoes in Hawaii had no available quarantine treatment to disinfest the fruit of tephritid fruit flies, thus preventing their export to many countries. Efforts to develop an approvable forced hot-air treatment for fruit ...

The author pointed out that the mango is somewhat unique in the wide variation of its sensory characteristics, depending on cultivar. Aspects such as appearance (skin and flesh color), aroma, sweetness, acidity, flesh ...

Review of the authors' experiments in Hawaii suggested that potassium nitrate did not induce flowering but probably stimulated growth of terminal buds, and flowering was determined by the condition of those buds or the ...